ON REGULATING HOMESCHOOLING: A REPLY TO GLANZER

摘要

I welcome Perry Glanzer's thoughtful essay, which discusses my 2002 book Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education and criticizes portions of my analysis there of homeschooling. Glanzer provides a helpful and fair gloss of some of the main theoretical claims I make in the book concerning the nature of the interests at stake in educating children and the importance of educating for autonomy. He accepts these and focuses his criticism on my practical policy proposals concerning the need to regulate homeschooling more strongly and with much greater vigilance. Glanzer's essay provides me the opportunity to extend some of the theoretical discussion in my book and to comment at greater length on the need for increased regulation of homeschooling, a phenomenon that has continued to expand apace since I wrote about it six years ago.